About

Candoco Dance Company: Face In / Let's Talk About Dis 

Candoco Dance Company, the company of disabled and non-disabled dancers, creates excellent and profound experiences for audiences and participants that excite, challenge and broaden perceptions of art and ability.

With over 25 years experience of creating acclaimed and cutting edge work, Candoco presents a brand new double bill of dramatic and powerful choreography. 

Yasmeen Godder's new work for Candoco, Face In, is a sensual and disturbing ode to intimacy and imagination, expressed through striking images and daring uninhibited dance. Set to an urban indie score, Candoco invites you to bask in this wild fictional world that feels uncomfortably familiar yet strangely distorted. A world that Candoco's dancers inhabit with ease: performing with pleasure, revealing the extreme of themselves and flirting with both the banal and the ridiculous.

Visual artist Hetain Patel's Let’s Talk About Dis is a playful and intimate piece that builds on an exploration of the dancers’ personalities and bodies, interrogating questions of what identity is and how it is formed. With seductive charm, Hetain challenges audiences to think beyond surface appearances, exposing hidden prejudices and absurd political correctness.

Performance - Visual Story

The visual story is intended for anyone who would like to know more information about the venue and performance to help them prepare for a new experience and to help them become familiar with the new surroundings.  Click on the link on the right to download the visual story.  If you would like any further information or assistance please contact 01273 678822 or email info@attenboroughcentre.com

Pre-show talk

A free pre-show talk will take place from 7.00pm – 7.30pm in the Gardner Tower at Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, with BSL interpretation by Sue MacLaine.

An opportunity to meet Ben Wright, one of Candoco’s new Artistic Co-Directors, Susanna Recchia, the company’s Rehearsal Director and Kimberley Harvey (Artist). You will be able to ask questions about the company’s pioneering inclusive work, its creative process and the pieces being performed.

This is free, open to all event. Do come along.

Please note there are a limited number of spaces so early arrival is to be advised.

These performances are part of South East Dance’s new micro-festival of contemporary performance with a choreographic edge: undisciplined. Three days of creative encounters, conversations and performance by artists and imaginative thinkers who are not bound by a specific genre will take place across the city.

A full programme of encounters and conversations will be available to book at southeastdance.org.uk from January 2018.

General Information

Guests with Mobility Impairments

Guests who use a wheelchair or experience mobility impairments are asked to call the box office on 01273 678822 or email info@attenboroughcentre.com so that we can assist you to find the best seat to suit your requirements.

Pay What You Decide

There is an allocation of Pay What You Decide (PWYD) tickets available to guests on a first-come, first-served basis. Come and see the show without paying anything in advance, and then pay what you think is appropriate at the end of the show. Maximum of four PWYD tickets per person. Please phone the box office on 01273 678822 or email info@attenboroughcentre.com for further information.

Concessions

The Concessions rate is available for students, University of Sussex students, Over 60s, and people in receipt of JSA or DLA/PIP. Proof of eligibility may be required on the door or at the box office (if collecting).  Personal assistance tickets are available for free for customers who would otherwise be unable to attend the venue. Please contact the box office on 01273 678822 or email info@attenboroughcentre.com for further information.

Box Office Opening Times

The box office (phone line and drop-in service) is open from 10am to 4pm, Mondays to Fridays. The box office is also open one hour before the advertised show start time.